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Edinburgh-based property portal ESPC has revealed the top-performing Edinburgh postcodes in terms of rental yields, for the second quarter of 2024. The...

Deputy Prime Minister and Housing Secretary Angela Rayner has launched a comprehensive review of the National Planning Policy Framework. The objective is...

The latest edition of the English Housing Survey reveals precisely how relatively rarely Section 21 is used. Data from the survey analysed...

The average age of landlords acquiring new rental property with a buy to let mortgage has fallen over the past decade,...

The right wing think tank the Adam Smith Institute has launched something called the Cost Of Rent Day. The institute has calculated...

A 101-home Built To Rent estate is being created by Barratt Homes in Cambridge, as part of a deal with BTR...

Scotland needs to match Labour’s English housebuilding target to tackle the country’s housing emergency according to a high profile lettings agency...

Just after welcoming the appointment of the new Labour government housing minister, Propertymark has gone on to call for a cross-party...

Angela Rayner has been appointed Levelling Up Secretary with responsibility for housing - a role she has in addition to being...

The next Government should create a separate Ministry of Housing and encourage MPs of all parties to work together to solve...

Shelter has spoken out in favour of what it calls “bold” commitments by Labour on the private rental sector and house...

Agents, and others in the lettings industry, have given a sceptical response to the Conservative manifesto and its varied pledges about...

Even as he was being elected as Mayor of London for a record-beating third successive time, Sadiq Khan was under pressure...

Paragon Bank’s analysis of its lending data has revealed the top 10 locations for investment by portfolio buy-to-let landlords, those with...

The latest rental data from PropTech supplier Goodlord has shown that March rents are now up by over 6% year-on-year.  And looking...

Leaders Romans Group claims to have achieved carbon neutrality for a second consecutive year.  A statement claims LRG has undertaken “several notable...

The letting agents’ trade body Propertymark has made the unexpected move of calling on banks to cut mortgage rates. Rates are typically...

Aldermore has named Bristol, as the best city for landlords to invest in for 2024.  Manchester, Coventry, Brighton and London make up...

Government figures suggest the UK population could reach nearly 74m as soon as 2036, largely attributed to rising net migration. This is...

Qualifications for property managers in the social housing sector should be extended to the private rental sector too. That’s the view of...

The latest rental index from Goodlord shows average rents in England rose nearly nine per cent higher across 2023. In 2022, rents...

A group of rental activists claims that police in England are disproportionately using a 19th century law that criminalises rough sleeping...

An analysis of tenants renting between 2020 and 2023 shows a big rise in those on high salaries asked to provide...

An agency has issued its rental market forecast for 2024. Chestertons says rents are forecast to have increased by 6.5 per cent...

Government data shows that as of 2022 some 15.29 per cent of homes in England are privately rented, with 14.9 per...

Rightmove is launching a new marketing campaign which it calculates will reach 51m people - the overwhelming majority of the UK...

New data from the Office for National Statistics, based on the 2021 Census results, show growth in the number of holiday...

Two cities have been identified as the UK’s highest-growth cities across multiple property sectors over the next 10 years, according to...

One of the country’s most popular destinations for both visitors and short let accommodation is likely to be hit with a...

Investors looking to add to their portfolios in 2023 should be urged to consider student housing opportunities, according to a Newcastle...

Propertymark’s ARLA President is calling on the government to intervene to help boost the flagging stock of rental properties. The call, by...

A prominent lettings agency chief wants a raft of measures to help the private rental sector and investors in next week’s...

A rent guarantor provider has announced a deal with agency Clever Student Lets. The provider - called RentGuarantor - says the deal...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Director Fariview Estates & Director keyhive.io What is ‘company name’...

Winkworth is expanding in the south west with a new office opening in the Bishopston area of Bristol, tapping into a...

Demographic data from the latest Census suggests that the Private Rental Sector now provides homes for 20.3 per cent of the...

A prominent lettings agent has resumed his attack on politicians for failing to build sufficient numbers of social housing properties -...

Purplebricks has detailed the price it is paying for a lettings compliance blunder first spotted last year. It predicts that, at worst,...

With the private rental sector stressed at the prospect of stricter energy efficiency rules in the coming years, the body representing...

Student landlords have seen record increases in rental prices of over 20 per cent in some cases, according to a lettings...

ARLA Propertymark has released details of its written response to a Parliamentary committee investigating the impact of Airbnb-style short lets on...

A quarter of homebuyers are putting off their purchase due to cost of living fears - and when it comes to...

A tenant has allegedly confronted an unnamed lettings agent over being “pushed out” of his long-term tenancy to make way for...

A leading brand in the fast-growing and heavily-funded Lomond Group has snapped up another independent agency.  Linley & Simpson has added another...

A new study has compiled a league table of the best cities in the UK for investment in student accommodation. CIA Landlord...

One of the UK’s largest lettings groups has made an outspoken attack on the policies of a political party standing in...

The head of a retirement rentals brand says the phenomenon of the elderly tenant is on the increase. Jamie Turnbull, business director...

Homes headed by a person over the age of 45 will account for at least half of all privately renting households...

New research commissioned by the landlords’ trade body shows that the UK needs almost 230,000 new private rented homes a year...

The government’s new Levelling Up White Paper, revealed this morning, includes a radical reshaping of the private rental sector. Section 21 eviction...

The coming year should be about promoting harmony in the lettings market says the head of an agency that’s now part of a...

Shelter claims that women are impacted by homelessness more than men, and says rising private rents are a contributory factor. In a...

The lettings agency boss at the centre of a major industry takeover has fired a warning shot about rent controls and...

Lloyds Banking Group, which is known to be investing huge sums in the UK private rental sector, has published the results...

A new Buy To Let ‘tracker’ from a prominent buy to let mortgage lender has revealed what it considers to be...

A prominent consultancy advising the Build To Rent sector has identified one British city as the prime location for investment in 2022. BNP...

A scam in one city has reportedly seen scores of individuals robbed of thousands of pounds as short lets have been...

Figures from the Deposit Protection Service suggest that students returned to university in greater numbers this year compared to 2020. The service...

Research by a student accommodation search platform suggests that the sector may rely too heavily on the apparent year-on-year growth in...

New research reveals that student property portfolios based in smaller university towns or cities typically generate the best returns. The findings, from...

Linley & Simpson, one of the North of England’s leading residential letting agents, has expanded its Sheffield operations just six months...

Recovery in the UK is being channeled towards regional cities, says a leading investment expert.  Martha Peyton, managing director and head of...

A Conservative MP says he is to declare a “state of housing emergency” in his constituency because of the loss of...

A Manchester agency says there’s been a 400 per cent increase in enquiries from international students. This huge number of enquiries for...

Rightmove has revealed its new TV advertisement, which it claims will reach 59 per cent of the UK during its campaign...

Almost one year to the day since the first national lockdown began, Rightmove has analysed millions of data points to confirm...

A prominent industry figure is warning Chancellor Rishi Sunak not to use property taxes to bail out the government over the costs...

New research suggests even those renters who want to be owner occupiers are likely to remain in the lettings sector in the...

The government has told letting agents in Tier 4 areas that their first priority must be the safety of their tenants. The...

A Welsh council has agreed to levy what it calls “a tax premium” on second homes from now until 2027 to...

A late-year surge in the number of Build To Rent applications has been forecast by a market commentator. Alex Blagden, senior researcher...

The announcement of the Renters’ Reform Bill in the Queen’s speech last December caused a collective groan across the country from...

Overseas and domestic students have returned to the Central London lettings market 'in force' so far this month, according to Dexters. The...

Rents are higher for Londoners living near busy high streets - for the moment at least.  Research by rental platform Spotahome has...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? My Name is Rob Trotter. I’m married to a vet,...

The typical UK private rental deposit, often considered high in this country, is thought to be relatively low by international standards...

An anti-poverty campaigner and tax expert says any private rented sector tenant with Coronavirus should be able to live rent-free for...

Nearly half a million properties could be removed from the long-term lettings market as disenchanted landlords move to short-lets. A survey by...

A third of all landlords live in Greater London and the South East according to data collated by a property management...

Generation Rent, a campaign group that is consistently critical of lettings agencies and landlords, says a priority of the new government...

A mortgage lender’s new Buy to Let City Tracker tool has calculated the best cities in the UK for buy to...

An industry supplier says letting agents should respond supportively to the growing eco-consciousness shown by younger people who are likely to...

There’s been an upbeat assessment of how the private rental sector will fare in the next five years from a leading...

A former Labour councillor and solicitor Muhammad Harun has been jailed for 16 months after pleading guilty to two counts of...

A collective of activist renter groups has set out a manifesto of what it wants from the winner of next month’s...

Property development and investment firm SevenCapital has released a top 10 league table of UK cities which it claims will perform...

UK-wide rental prices are up 2.0 per cent annually to £876 – a three-year high – according to a new quarterly...

The rental sector needs to prepare for the demographic challenge of an increasingly older population, says the head of a high...

The government has been criticised yet again for what is described as its “incoherent” approach to the private rental sector. David Miles,...

Legal & General has exchanged contracts to complete the largest privately funded development in Wales, Cardiff Central Square, which will include...

Manchester is becoming a buy to let investment hotspot according to the boss of a leading property management firm.  David Alexander of...

The 45+ age demographic is the fastest growing tenant market, according to flatsharing site SpareRoom. The website's data shows that the total...

A new survey by one of the sector’s most respected lenders, Paragon, suggests large scale landlords are now a bigger force...

A European law firm has set out a critique of the driving forces behind Build To Rent - and it says...

A property management chief is arguing that rent controls would restrict mortgage loans to buy to let investors and drive existing...

Today the long-awaited Homes (Fitness For Human Habitation) Act comes into force, pioneered by Labour MP Karen Buck and giving people...

Rent in London is the most expensive in Europe for expats, new research shows. The UK capital’s rent averages US$7,189 - that’s...

The BBC’s Reality Check service, respected for giving a more realistic assessment of many politicians’ promises, has looked at London mayor...

A report claims that England has just 825 homes for every 1,000 families as a result of two decades of house...

Research released this morning reveals that university cities offer some of the highest buy to let yields in the country. The Free...